The future is built, not predicted — usually by people told it was impossible.
We invest as practitioners — founders who've built and exited, operators who've scaled, specialists who go deep in AI, energy, media and infrastructure.
We write checks, but we also contribute the domain expertise and networks that actually move the needle.
Napper Tandy
Napper founded Principia after 10 years of angel investing while building One House, a media and creator services company reaching a 100m+ audience globally.
While breaking talent globally and building partnerships with Google, Apple, Nike, F1, Spotify, BMW and more, Napper became an early investor in Anthropic, xAI, Groq, Jenni AI, and Praktika.
He holds a First Class degree from Cambridge University and graduated with the top dissertation in the year exploring the mathematics and philosophy of how we describe space and landscape. Published in The Cambridge Quarterly.
Murugan Thiruchelvam
Murugan's career spans chess, music, film, and venture capital — united by a single thread: pattern recognition.
He began playing chess at three, broke multiple world records, and was winning adult tournaments by six. Just after his tenth birthday, playing against Garry Kasparov alongside the world's leading young prodigies, his game was singled out by Kasparov as the best of the day for its strategic understanding — an instinct that later transferred to music composition and drew the attention of Hans Zimmer, who tried to hire him.
In under two years as an executive producer, he assembled a film slate that earned a Sundance win, BIFA nominations, and BAFTA-qualifying credits.
At Principia, Murugan applies that same cross-domain lens to emerging technology and venture.